Otago Daily Times: World News

Bill Gates stands atop Forbes magazine's annual list of the
world's richest people, as Facebook Inc's Mark Zuckerberg
joined the top 20 and basketball star Michael Jordan plowed
new air by making the list for the first time.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned the
United States that the nuclear deal it is negotiating with
Iran could threaten Israel's survival and insisted he had a
"moral obligation" to speak up about deep differences with
President Barack Obama on the issue.

The United States and Israel showed signs of seeking to
defuse tensions ahead of a speech in Washington by Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he will warn against a
possible nuclear deal with Iran.

North Korea fired two short-range missiles off its east
coast, a South Korean military official said, a move seen as
a protest against annual military exercises between South
Korea and the United States that were due to start hours
later.

Islamist militant Mohammed Emwazi, identified as 'Jihadi
John', was a member of a network in contact with one of the
men convicted of trying to bomb the British capital's
underground railway in 2005, according to the government.